Regrow Your Veggies: Growing Vegetables from Roots, Cuttings, and Scraps

Sustainable Tips, Troubleshooting, & Directions for Lettuce, Potatoes, Ginger, Scallions, Mango, & More

By Melissa Raupach (Author), Felix Lill (Author)
CompanionHouse Books (February 17, 2020)

No need to keep buying the same vegetables you eat all the time over and over again. Regrow Your Veggies is an insightful guide that provides effective propagation techniques to recycle and regrow more than 20 popular vegetables right at home! Learn how to have a source of fresh and healthy vegetables close by, from onions and sweet potatoes to pineapples and mangoes, reduce waste, and know how to prevent and solve issues with pesky pests and pathogens. Get the most out of your favorite foods and produce your own produce!

Potatoes need to be dried out first, then planted between January and March.
The stems of romaine lettuce will start to sprout roots in water in just 5–10 days.
Great to cook with, ginger is also a remedy for stomach pains and colds.
Individual coriander stems can’t be regrown—make sure you have the roots intact.
NASA considers sweet potatoes an essential crop for all future space exploration missions!
You can easily regrow scallions both in water and in soil!
Don’t throw a mango core away—grow an exotic tree instead!
Harvesting a whole pineapple may take a few years, but it’s such a decorative plant that makes the wait enjoyable!
If hard when cut, Jerusalem artichokes can simply be planted directly in soil, no water bath needed!

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